TrainForTrade manages mid-term and long-term technical assistance projects (2 to 6 years), and networks in developing and least developed countries.

 

List of main projects:

• Benin, Burkina-Faso, Mali - Trade related issues (2000 - 2003) financed by France
• Distance learning - Trade related issues (worldwide project 2002-2006) financed by Belgium
• Cambodia & Lao PDR - Trade related issues (regional project 2003-2011) funded by France
• Latin America - Trade related issues (2006 - now) funded by Spain
• Angola - Trade related issues (2007 - 2011) funded by the European Commission.
• Benin - Tourism (2008-2010) funded by the Integrated framework
• Guinea - Trade related issues (2008-2011) funded by the French Development Agency (AFD)

Each Project Funding is between 500.000 and 4 million USD.

 

Networks:

• Port Training programme (from 1998 - present) funded by the beneficiary ports in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and by partner ports and government entities in Belgium, France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. The 4 language networks have over the years received the following funding:

   

  • French Networks over 2.5 millon USD
  • English Network over 1.5 million USD
  • Portuguese Network over 500.000 USD
  • Spanish Network over 1 million USD

 

Other Donor Support:

 

One shot activities and other contributions have been valuable to the programme, such as:

 

The Greek-financed Training of Trainers in the field (2009 and 2010) in the framework of the Port Training Programme.

Portugal’s contribution to the development of the Portuguese speaking Network of the Port Training Programme, to an international conference on Tourism in Lisbon and to the Angola project.

The Spanish region, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's contribution.

Associate Experts from Belgium (4), France (2), Germany (1), the Netherlands (1) and Norway (1).

Seconded experts from: France (2) .

Interns from: Bolivia, Brazil, Djibouti, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Thailand and United States of America.

United Nations Volunteer based in Cambodia.

The French-financed international conference on Tourism in Caen, France.

Sustainable Tourism and Port training activities funded by the French regions Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, Auvergne, Rhône-Alpes and Normandie.